"Mash-up" - Americans and Brits: The Little Differences Pt 2
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- vespa
So when i was in Texas I remember ranting at some students from new york about the use of the word "mash-up", which 3 or 4 years ago USED to be a sarf-london black/asian word that meant taking lots of drukqs and listening to mad dance music in a skanky way ("gonna get mash-up" meant gonna get fucked up in a dingy sweaty basement to pounding pounding dance music), nothing to aspire to but now it's one of those nu music/nu media buzz words that means *yawn* putting two unrelated bits of content together.
Corporate vampires of enthusiasm acquiring a watered down version of cool and selling it back to the new generation of "cultural communicators" (apparently that's the graphic designer demographic) who then sell it back to the kids.
So I was bitching about the blandness of this and one of the friendly students i was hanging out with was all "ohhh cos you're SO COOL in london and in the US we're SO BORING and GLOBAL and CORPORATE" and I was saying well actually the word has been blandified in australia and europe too but you can take it personally if you'd prefer! he said "I take everything personally" and I didn't realise at the time that he was just taking himself and myself too seriously or else I would have been happy to point it out.
It's the same with French people, or maybe just parisians. Try and take the piss out of a parisian and watch your relationship deteriorate!
Is it just aussies and brits and danes and buddhist monks who find freedom in being nothing?
Self Importance. Popular Culture Soiling Itself With Impunity.
- Question0
*yawn*
Another self-rightous thread started by an arrogant brit.
- kelpie0
fucks sake vespa, can I habe my 5 mins back please?
- kelpie0
;)
- Crouwel0
i find freedom in being nothing. or just a world citizen.
nationality means utter shite to me.
so is adapting words from different cultures, mate! ;)
ps. most dutch people are the total opposite to me when it comes to valueing nationalities..
- skt0
The euro itself is fucking up the economy. They should concentrate on alternative energy resources so in 10 years europe can be the supplier. That's the only way they have a fighting chance to become what we are today.
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(Mar 23 06, 16:25)Who's the arrogant one Question? Quite why we would want to be what you (meaning you specifically Question) are today is beyond me.
- Crouwel0
i ignored him. my friday is better now.
- vespa0
Question you're taking me too seriously! i'm asking a question for gawds sake. i don't hate americans! americans rawk!! you guys do so many things so much better than brits or aussies. maybe because it's the culture to take everything so seriously.
- Crouwel0
relativeren is a dutch word that comes to mind.
- skt0
I wouldn't bother trying to engage him in discourse vespa. He's a flag waving, french hating, ignorant little fuck with nothing good to say about anyone other than republican Americans.
- vespa0
oh. well maybe he could at least tell me where to get some good cowboy boots?
- rasko40
i dont see how this really concerns americans other than the fact that you were in america arguing with an american - the term has been redefined in musical circles within the UK - also, in fact, aren't 'mashup' mixes a very london thing? all media whores just catch on and proliferate things so quickly these days that they become tired and eat themselves?
- Dancer0
Question is just plain boring now your not missing out on much.
She/He'll get bored trying create arguments and fuck of eventually.
I doubt he/she is even a designer. Merely a sad, bored, dilluded individual on a quest to create confrontation.
*yawn
- garettwest0
Potatoes perhaps?
- rasko40
JazX?
- mr_snuggles0
Canadians don't take themselves seriously....we're not as friendly as the Americans, but hey, we won't invade your country, mostly out of the fact that we couldn't even if we wanted to...
see I just proved my point...
btw - I loathe the term 'mash-up'
- kelpie0
is it really re-appropriated? or is it coincidence? it does fit..
(sorry, me hugely ignorant of that London)
- skt0
Was the term not imported from the dancehalls of Kingston anyway?
- skt0
like crack
- kelpie0
racialist
- skt0
lolz.